selflessness
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I sit in class as students say, "I'm not selfish. I think of others."
I say you are nothing but selfish.
You've judged me my entire life for how you perceive me,
Epitome of Altruism
“Live and breathe kindness
Selflessness is a guidance
It is a lifestyle
Helping you fight through every trial”
A Beautiful smell dancing around the air resting in our souls and providing peace to our unsettled hearts. A smell that gives and gives, but scarcely do we see who has given us this gift.
I used to read a lot more,
That’s just a hardened fact.
Now what I read is simply for school,
Annotations, blue and black.
I remember loving books,
You, my dear, are a bomb
You have reduced me to sheer atoms
With the force of your eloquent words
Stronger than any weapon that the hands of man have produced
My father, my father, how much you mean to me,
You’ve taught me how to be mature, and good as I can be,
You help me up when I fall down, and tell me I can do it,
I awake to my alarm another day of work lies ahead
I begin to creep out of bed and hear your quiet morning voice
Asking me for coffee half asleep, I don’t hesitate
We all know how it goes
'Once upon a time' to 'happily ever after'
The same words, the same stories, the same messages spread:
'Some day your prince will come'
'Believe in magic'
'Follow your dreams'
Forget the blood lines that make our trees bright red
Forget the colors that highlight our lively skin
Brothers, sister, mothers and fathers
We are all something bigger, better and stronger
Yet…
Do not let my heart grow cold.
For I will become a cynic,
and bitter to the core.
Kind words will choke me,
for I cannot say them.
Copyright © by Nikhil Parekh
Copyright © by Nikhil Parekh
Happiness is a reward,
A thing we shouldn't ignored.
But happiness is not easy
and life isn't all that breezy.
Happiness is working hard
Even if your playing the right card.
You are the sun
And I am the moon
And I think it is beautiful
That you set each and everyday
To watch me dance among the stars
And glimmer in the night sky
Using your light
Friendship is the art of forgetting oneself totally, all
selfish needs and wants and getting to know the
Today I am tired
Of being everything.
Friend, sister, lover, student, teacher
Stretches a little to thin
But I'll never complain
I'll even off you a smile
Because its not about me
Tears fall, hidden perfectly by the smiles of the day
No one sees the anguish
No one hears the sobbing
All they see is my mask of a smile
Does anyone wonder about the story behind my mask?
Back at the trailer, another day gone
She stopped to wonder why
She asked herself, "is this worth it?'
She was barely getting by
